Spring/Summer 2006 Contributors

Kristy Athens is a freelance writer who lives in the Columbia Gorge area.

Mark Blaine teaches journalism at the University of Oregon. His work has appeared in Oregon Quarterly, Forest Magazine, and Etude.

Lucy Burningham recently moved from Salt Lake City to Portland, where she works as a freelance writer while pursuing a master's degree in nonfiction writing from Portland State University. Her work has appeared in Sunset, Outside, Hemispheres, and on NewWest.net.

Caroline Cummins is a Portland-based freelance writer. She uses the library all the time.

Dan DeWeese's fiction and essays have appeared in recent issues of Washington Square, Salt Hill, and Matter. He teaches writing at Portland State University.

Lara Florez is a freelance writer and mother of two preschoolers currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Pacific University. She is an active member of the Development Code Advisory Committee for the City of Cottage Grove and the Friends of Mt. David, a land-use advocacy group.

Charles Goodrich is the author of a volume of poems, Insects of South Corvallis, and a collection of essays about nature, parenting, and building his own house, The Practice of Home. He is the program director for the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University.

Dean Gorman lives in Portland. His writing has appeared in the Portland Mercury, Typo, Caffeine Destinyv, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Verso, and Music Liberation Project.

Debra Gwartney is a writer and editor who lives in Eugene. She is an adjunct instructor at Portland State University and the University of Oregon.

Kenneth I. Helphand is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon. In addition to his current book, Defiant Gardens: Marking Gardens in Wartime (Trinity Press, 2006), he is the author of Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape, Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture and the Making of Modern Israel, and Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space (coauthored with Cynthia Girling).

Kristin Kaye is a freelance writer whose work has been seen onstage, online, and in magazines. She is the author of Iron Maidens: The Celebration of the Most Awesome Female Muscle in the World.

Robin Kimmerer is an associate professor on the faculty of environmental and forest biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Her book Gathering Moss was published by OSU Press.

Kathleen Dean Moore is best known for her award-winning books about our cultural and spiritual connections to the wet, wild world--Riverwalking, Holdfast, and The Pine Island Paradox, winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. She is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University, where she directs the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word.

William G. Robbins is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Oregon State University, where he taught for more than thirty years. He is the author and editor of eleven books, most recently Oregon, This Storied Land.

Todd Schwartz is a Portland-based writer who is currently building a "good-neighbor-but-don't-really-want-to-look-at-his-jet-ski" fence.

Gail Wells is a writer and editor specializing in regional history and natural resource topics. She is the author of The Tillamook: A Created Forest Comes of Age, Lewis and Clark Meet Oregon's Forests: Lessons from Dynamic Nature (with coauthor Dawn Anzinger), and many articles and essays. For the past seven years she has been a presenter for OCH's Oregon Chautauqua program. She lives in Corvallis.

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Kathleen Holt
EDITOR
Jennifer Viviano
GRAPHIC DESIGN

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